tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post6194759232072834787..comments2015-08-02T12:53:19.743-07:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Lewis W. Hine: Scott's Run, West Virginia, March 1937Zephirinenoreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-17535855038264562013-08-20T04:57:02.770-07:002013-08-20T04:57:02.770-07:00For more of the work of this great American photog...For more of the work of this great American photographer, see:<br /><br /><a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2012/10/lewis-w-hine-where-boys-are.html" rel="nofollow">Lewis W. Hine: Where the Boys Are</a><br /><br /><a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/lewis-w-hine-enforced-rest.html" rel="nofollow">Lewis W. Hine: An Enforced Rest</a><br /><br /><a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/lewis-w-hine-child-labor-kentucky-1916.html" rel="nofollow">Lewis W. Hine: Child Labor, Kentucky, 1916</a><br /><br /><a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/lewis-w-hine-child-scavengers.html" rel="nofollow">Lewis W. Hine: Child Scavengers</a><br /><br /><a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/lewis-w-hine-cotton-she-jess-works-for.html" rel="nofollow">Lewis W. Hine: Cotton (&quot;She jess works fer pleasure&quot;)</a><br /><br /><a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/lewis-w-hine-days-work-of-humphrey.html" rel="nofollow">Lewis W. Hine: Day&#39;s Work of the Humphrey Children, Elizabethtown, Kentucky</a><br /><br /><a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/lewis-w-hine-exposure-get-father-watch.html" rel="nofollow">Lewis W. Hine: Exposure (&quot;get father a watch&quot;)</a><br /><br /><a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/lewis-w-hine-junk-gatherers-just-kids.html" rel="nofollow">Lewis W. Hine: Junk Gatherers (Just Kids)</a><br /><br /><a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/lewis-w-hine-truant-newsboys-oklahoma.html" rel="nofollow">Lewis W. Hine: Truant Newsboys, Oklahoma City (&quot;didn&#39;t know his name&quot;)</a>TChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-33814567674891739012013-08-19T13:48:08.439-07:002013-08-19T13:48:08.439-07:00Astounding as both a socio-economic document and a...Astounding as both a socio-economic document and as a collection of beautiful photographs. <br /><br />And until now, I had no idea Lewis Hine ventured outside of New York City.-K-http://www.blogger.com/profile/03289562368002376807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-92197396720392722902013-08-19T11:15:54.933-07:002013-08-19T11:15:54.933-07:00I agree, Nin, color photography has a quality of g...I agree, Nin, color photography has a quality of glamor that is often off the beam. People, their personalities and emotions seem to come through more powerfully in black and white. Certain landscapes, like the cold mist, the freezing clouds seem more penetrating in black and white. I wonder if removing color from digital fotos would restore some of the special qualities of black and white? Will have to experiment with it. I think maybe messing with and mastering all those F-stops and ASA&#39;s may have forced a certain concentration upon photographers that sometimes produced extraordinary results.<br /><br />HarrisUnknownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15235344408979987198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-81216936053095634372013-08-17T09:09:32.015-07:002013-08-17T09:09:32.015-07:00What have we done --
And why do we keep doing it?...What have we done --<br /><br />And why do we keep doing it?<br /><br />I learned photography from an old Sears kit in grade school--we turned our bomb shelter into a dark room, my sister and I, and we began with that and moved up.<br />But I still feel that those old b and w pics are so much more interesting. Color, for all it&#39;s glamor, never seems quite right. I don&#39;t quite like to admit it, but when I take a pic now, I tend to frame a more polished image than is out there. When I do (or rather did) black and white, I think more about the interior quality of the image. Nin Andrewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12643167108589844026noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-17867490592747233112013-08-17T07:56:11.076-07:002013-08-17T07:56:11.076-07:00Tom,
Thanks and yes, the past indeed speaks to us...Tom,<br /><br />Thanks and yes, the past indeed speaks to us -- as we see in such remarkable images from the second stop in The Joe Darby Memorial Tour of the History of Industry. . .<br /><br />8.17<br /><br />light coming into sky above still black<br />ridge, shadowed bird hovering at flower<br />in foreground, sound of wave in channel<br /><br /> remark which thus, for such<br /> that relative to this<br /><br /> thing, more than once, what<br /> has already been said<br /><br />grey white fog against invisible ridge,<br />white line of wave breaking in channel<br />STEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-47527035875450581002013-08-17T06:47:51.337-07:002013-08-17T06:47:51.337-07:00These images were made for the WPA&#39;s National ...These images were made for the WPA&#39;s National Research Project (a survey of changes in industry and their effect on employment), for which Hine served as chief photographer.<br /><br />The overarching social vision and sense of ethical conscience in Lewis Hine&#39;s work make it exceptional. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.cosmopolis.ch/english/art/e0015700/lewis_hine_e015700000.htm" rel="nofollow">A useful brief biographical article on Hine, drawn from the catalogue for the current major exhibition of his photographic work at Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland</a><br /><br />Hine is described therein as &quot;a progressive photographer, in European terms a left-wing artist... an ancestor and/or precursor to [the] &#39;documentary&#39; and &#39;concerned&#39; photography.&quot;<br /><br />His work changed the way children were treated in American society.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFH6fpxzTBU" rel="nofollow">Lewis Hine Collection: a slideshow of Hine&#39;s images documenting child labor in the US (from the Library of Congress)</a><br /><br />Hine&#39;s commitment to social justice caused his work to be neglected in his later years. The gods of popularity have always been thoughtless and cruel. The Museum of Modern Art turned down his offer to donate his photographic archive. Instead it went to Eastman House.TChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-60946754106812113422013-08-16T13:44:40.601-07:002013-08-16T13:44:40.601-07:00Ah yes, I missed the irony there. Thanks!
Yes the...Ah yes, I missed the irony there. Thanks!<br /><br />Yes the wealthy are doing an excellent job of growing poverty everywhere.Unknownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15235344408979987198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-16350305578698004652013-08-16T07:33:04.072-07:002013-08-16T07:33:04.072-07:00Harris--
Take a closer look at my little &quot;po...Harris--<br /><br />Take a closer look at my little &quot;poem&quot; and you&#39;ll see it says exactly what you say, to wit: &quot;The rich love poverty. It provides a “ready to go” work pool. It keeps the profits high and growing. Without poverty there would be no “rich”.&quot;--<br /><br />Exactly--that&#39;s why it&#39;s a disease the rich can&#39;t afford to neglect. <br />vazambam (Vassilis Zambaras)http://www.blogger.com/profile/14515165428574974933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-2881884605534948792013-08-16T03:12:37.355-07:002013-08-16T03:12:37.355-07:00Powerfully painful post Tom. Brrrrr. Ouch. Amazing...Powerfully painful post Tom. Brrrrr. Ouch. Amazing courage in many of those faces! Joy too. <br /><br />“Glad to meet you,” says the past. Here in the present, there are likely many billions of humans in situations equally or more painful, more degrading than the one so powerfully presented here. The gap is growing, nationally and globally. <br /><br />I disagree, vazambam. The rich love poverty. It provides a “ready to go” work pool. It keeps the profits high and growing. Without poverty there would be no “rich”. <br /><br />“What have I done to deserve this?”<br /><br />“I can&#39;t remember <br />where, when, and why <br />I let someone open <br />this account in my name. <br /><br />(Wanda Szymborska – Nothing’s a Gift)<br /><br />I had a spiritual teacher long ago who said “we pick our parents and our lives before we are conceived.” I didn’t buy it then or now. I’ll go with WS’s theory. <br /><br />Perhaps something will be revealed in “Eternity”.<br /><br />HarrisUnknownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15235344408979987198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-79623894910656167422013-08-15T11:36:02.551-07:002013-08-15T11:36:02.551-07:00Poverty the disease
The rich can&#39;t
Afford to n...Poverty the disease<br />The rich can&#39;t<br />Afford to neglect.vazambam (Vassilis Zambaras)http://www.blogger.com/profile/14515165428574974933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-52012989462074941972013-08-15T09:44:40.455-07:002013-08-15T09:44:40.455-07:00Being historical creatures we&#39;d do well to sta...Being historical creatures we&#39;d do well to stay on friendly terms with past but we keep the distance (whether by sentimentality or indifference, it hardly matters). A terrible and pervasive myth, that we&#39;re done with history.<br /><br />And here we are coming close to our own grand goodbyes.<br /><br />All those different races, the common glue being poverty. People and landscapes too worn out.Wooden Boyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01100756913131511440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-16276787713823713482013-08-15T09:03:40.705-07:002013-08-15T09:03:40.705-07:00We’re all refugees from something, even if we’ve s...We’re all refugees from something, even if we’ve stayed in one place. The place I’ve lived all my life (so far) is Planet Earth. It’s home, a “place” made up of places. It’s a feeling. When the planet hurts, I hurt. Literally. <br /><br />“The past speaks to us . . .” and from a place outside of history.<br /><br />I like where this is going. Nice launch.Hazenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13417573435195561519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-34739431390459570802013-08-15T06:30:37.845-07:002013-08-15T06:30:37.845-07:00This is why my schoolteacher grandfather headed to...This is why my schoolteacher grandfather headed to Detroit and slept in her parks for months trying to find work. Eventually Briggs was hiring and he sent for my mother and grandmother. Indeed the circle of boom and bust is unbroken.kenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12448791356455016794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-88971178802561676722013-08-15T05:01:20.808-07:002013-08-15T05:01:20.808-07:00I read and looked at this and then saw your final ...I read and looked at this and then saw your final note about yesterday’s WB piece, Joe Darby and the cunning plan and was kind of putting two-and-two together about Poetry of Place and its alternatives. I love this and these people. The contrast between them and yesterday’s humans in my mind and my feelings about the two groups makes me feel uncharitable and inhuman, but unfortunately I think inhuman “comes with the territory” these days. Your four lines and the generous helping of Lewis Hine’s photos are all I require to site me at the moment. No Apps allowed (please). CurtisACravanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00315707533118640284noreply@blogger.com